APR: APR5665

Yakov Flier - The Igumnov School

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Yakov Flier - The Igumnov School

5024709156658

APR5665

Yakov Flier - The Igumnov School

Chopin:

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre'

recorded in Moscow c1956

Kabalevsky:

24 Preludes Op. 38

recorded in Moscow c1955

Rachmaninov:

Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor

recorded in Moscow c1952

Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor

recorded in Moscow c1952

Yakov Flier (piano)

We continue our comprehensive survey of the many great pianists who worked in Russia in the Soviet era with the first two discs in the Igumnov School. The bulk of the issues will be divided into 'schools' which represent the three main teachers of this period - Neuhaus, Goldenweiser and Igumnov, - and their pupils. Igumnov was the oldest of the thre great teachers we are considering.

Revered as an influential teacher at the Moscow Conservatoire, Yakov Flier is also much revered by his fans as one of the greats of the old-school Russian pianists. Flier never achieved the fame of Richter, but is very much in that line. Here the Kabalevsky and Rachmaninov Preludes are especially good examples of Flier’s idiosyncractic power. - Gramophone Magazine

“Flier's generosity and poetic leeway in Chopin's Second Sonata has little to do with present-day severity. His rubato is personal but never excessive… and the entire performance is exceptionally powerful and eloquent.” Gramophone Magazine, Janurary 2008

GGramophone Magazine

Re-issue of the Month - January 2008

APR - The Russian Piano Tradition - APR5665

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